AVP / VP, Corporate Strategy & Development

Job Description:

Corporate Strategy

• Ongoing surveillance and analysis of evolving market trends including competitive landscape situational analysis and strategic response to regulatory changes
• Lead workstreams to formulate corporate strategies regarding specific themes together with business and ‘chapter’ units
• Originate impactful strategic initiatives that will help bridge gaps between strategic aspirations and actual performance situations

Corporate Development

• Continuous engagement / immersion in the relevant industry / segment / product scenes, in order to uncover potential timely opportunities for strategic alliances / partnerships / acquisitions
• Lead partnership workstreams from a Country level, stitching together all potential collaboration opportunities and develop these propositions till Go-To-Market
• Perform necessary market assessment studies and commercial due diligence for senior management consideration

PerformanceManagement

• Drive and manage / track Country-level KPIs / OKRs and metrics for reporting purposes
• Organise concerted Country-level response to other ad-hoc reporting requests

Skill requirements:

• At least 5 years’ experience in Strategy Consulting / Corporate Strategy in a Financial Institution
• Knowledge in Banking – preferred expertise in Corporate Banking / Global Banking / Regionalising Banking Operations (areas currently lacking now in the team)
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with ability to deal with / communicate well with C-suite level stakeholders
• Strong research and analytical skills with keen business / logical sense to establish causation and spot pertinent trends
• Ability to think ‘out-of-the-box’ and bridge performance gaps with innovative solutions
• Project management expertise to run things efficiently and problem-solve whenever needed